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It will run to the end of May 2025. </div> <h1 id="h1">About</h1> <h2>Background reading</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/1703.04222">Scholia and scientometrics with Wikidata</a>.</li> <li><a href="https://finnaarupnielsen.wordpress.com/2016/09/21/so-what-can-we-use-wikicite-for/">So what can we use Wikicite for?</a></li> <li><a href="https://finnaarupnielsen.wordpress.com/2016/09/30/the-wikidata-scholarly-profile-page/">The Wikidata scholarly profile page</a></li> <li><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WikiCite_2016_report.pdf">WikiCite 2016 Report</a></li> <li><a href="https://riojournal.com/article/35820/">Robustifying Scholia: paving the way for knowledge discovery and research assessment through Wikidata</a></li> <li><a href="https://zenodo.org/record/7087987">Scholia for Software</a>.</li> <li><a href="https://scholia.toolforge.org/project/Q45340488">Scholia about Scholia</a>.</li> </ul> <h2>FAQ</h2> <ul> <li>See the <a href="https://scholia.toolforge.org/faq">dedicated page</a>.</li> </ul> <h2>Presentations</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://zenodo.org/record/7226858">Visualizing Biodiversity Information using Wikidata and Scholia</a>. Presentation at TDWG 2022.</li> <li><a href="https://zenodo.org/record/6948504">Exploring restoration ecology via Wikidata and Scholia</a>. Presentation at a restoration ecology workshop in 2022.</li> <li><a href="https://zenodo.org/record/5594663">Monitoring policy compliance with Wikidata and Scholia</a>. Presentation at Compliance and Output Tracking group of the Open Research Funders Group, 2021</li> <li><a href="https://zenodo.org/record/4633789">InChI and InChIKey in Wikidata and Scholia</a>. Presentation at NIH Virtual Workshop on InChI, March 22-24, 2021</li> <li><a href="https://zenodo.org/record/3594372">Wikidata and Scholia as hub linking metabolite knowledge</a>. Presentation at Netherlands Metabolomics Days, 2018.</li> <li><a href="https://zenodo.org/record/3492008">Wikidata and Scholia as a Hub Linking Chemical Knowledge</a>. Presentation at Beilstein Open Science 2019 meeting.</li> <li><a href="http://mirror.netcologne.de/CCC/events/wikidatacon/2017/h264-hd/wikidatacon2017-10010-eng-Scholia_hd.mp4">Scholia</a>. 35 minute presentation including discussion at WikidataCon 2017, Berlin, Germany.</li> <li><a href="http://mirror.netcologne.de/CCC/events/wikidatacon/2017/h264-hd/wikidatacon2017-10013-eng-Describing_Software_So_We_Can_Cite_Software_hd.mp4">Describing software so we can cite software</a>. 11 minute part of presentation and discussion at WikidataCon 2017, Berlin, Germany.</li> </ul> <h2>Acknowledgment</h2> <ul> <li>Scholia has received funding from:<br /> <ul> <li>the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation under grant number <a href="https://sloan.org/grant-detail/8961">G-2019-11458</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite">Wikicite</a>.</li> <li>Lambert Heller. Inspiration from <a href="http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2015/07/16/scholarly-profile-of-the-future/">What will the scholarly profile page of the future look like? Provision of metadata is enabling experimentation</a>.</li> <li>Magnus Manske.</li> <li>Jakob Vo脽.</li> <li>Shubhanshu Mishra, <a href="https://twitter.com/TheShubhanshu/status/792752931347062784">inspiration</a> for author profile visualization with LEGOLAS, see, e.g., <a href="http://abel.lis.illinois.edu/legolas/profile_basic">the example for Neil Smalheiser</a>.</li> <li><a href="https://github.com/WDscholia/scholia/graphs/contributors">All contributors</a>.</li> </ul> <h3>Technical acknowledgement</h3> <ul> <li><a href="http://flask.pocoo.org/">Flask</a>, python web framework (<a href="http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/0.12/license/">BSD license).</li> <li><a href="https://getbootstrap.com/">Bootstrap</a>, front-end framework (<a href="https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/blob/master/LICENSE">MIT license</a>).</li> <li><a href="https://jquery.com/">jQuery</a>, Javascript library (<a href="https://jquery.org/license/">jQuery license</a>, typically MIT license).</li> <li><a href="https://datatables.net/">DataTables</a>, table-rendering Javascript library (MIT license).</li> <li><a href="https://citation.js.org/">Citation.js</a>, see <a href="https://peerj.com/articles/cs-214/">this PeerJ Computer Science paper</a></li> </ul> <h3>Brand acknowledgement</h3> <ul> <li>TWITTER and the Twitter Bird logo are trademarks of Twitter Inc. or its affiliates</li> <li>GITHUB庐 is an exclusive trademark registered in the United States by GitHub, Inc.</li> <li>The ROR logo by the Research Organization Registry is licensed under <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en">Creative Commons Attribution 4.0</a></li> </ul> <h2>Citation</h2> <pre> @InProceedings{NielsenF2017Scholia, author = {Finn {\AA}rup Nielsen and Daniel Mietchen and Egon Willighagen}, title = {Scholia and scientometrics with Wikidata}, booktitle = {Scientometrics 2017}, year = {2017}, arxiv = {1703.04222}, wikidata = {Q28942417}, pages = {237--259}, month = {November}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-70407-4_36}, URL = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/1703.04222}, } </pre> </div> </div> <div class="container footer"> <hr> Data from <a href="https://www.wikidata.org">Wikidata</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org">English Wikipedia</a> | Code from <a href="https://github.com/WDscholia/scholia">GitHub repository</a> | Hosted on <a href="https://toolforge.org/">Wikimedia Toolforge</a>, a <a href="https://wikimediafoundation.org">Wikimedia Foundation</a> service | License for content: CC0 for data, CC-BY-SA for text and media | Report technical problems at Scholia's <a href="https://github.com/WDscholia/scholia/issues">Issues</a> GitHub page. | Follow us on <a href="https://wikis.world/@wdscholia">Mastodon</a>. <hr> </div> <script src="/static/jquery.min.js"></script> <script src="/static/js/popper.min.js"></script> <script src="/static/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="/static/d3.v5.min.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="/static/d3-scale-chromatic.v1.min.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="/static/jquery.dataTables.min.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="/static/scholia.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="/static/bootstrap-autocomplete.min.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> $(document).ready(function () { $('#searchterm').autoComplete({ minLength: 2, resolver: 'custom', events: { search: debounce((searchTerm, callback) => { var url = "https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?callback=?"; var settings = { dataType: 'jsonp', data: { search: searchTerm, action: "wbsearchentities", language: "en", uselang: "en", format: "json", strictlanguage: true } }; $.ajax(url, settings).then(function (data) { if (data.search.length) { let results = ['Show all results for "' + searchTerm + '"'] for (let item of data.search) { results.push(item.label + " - " + item.description + " (" + item.title + ")"); } callback(results) } else { callback([]) } }).fail(function (jqXHR, textStatus, errorThrown) { callback(["Search failed"]) console.error("Search failed. 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